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Welcome to the home page of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), the First Society In Computing. We invite you to participate in our monthly meetings and Professional Development Seminars.

Important Notice!

• The February talk has been moved to Wednesday, February 27th and to a new location. There will be no chapter meeting on February 20th.

News and Upcoming Events

• Wednesday, June 11: Data Mining SIG: Automated Dependency Discovery of Hosts and Network Services in Distributed Systems to be presented by Moises Goldszmidt, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research

• Wednesday, May 21: Blue Ruby - The Ruby way to talk to SAP Business Applications to be presented by Juergen Schmerder, SAP

• Wednesday, May 14: Data Mining SIG: Mining Quotations for Links and Ideas to be presented by Okan Kolak and Bill Schilit, researchers, Google Inc.

• Wednesday, April 16: Computing in Transition to be presented by Nick Tredennick, PhD, Gilder Publishing

• Wednesday, April 9: Data Mining SIG: Learning Outside the Box and the Simplex: Efficient Projection Algorithms for Sparse Representations to be presented by Yoram Singer, Senior Research Scientist, Google Inc.

Acknowledgements

• The ACM would like to thank Mike Haley, Senior Software Architect, Autodesk Inc. for the talk Large Scale Processing and Searching of Engineering Design Content Using Open Source Technologies on March 19.

• The ACM would like to thank Peter D. Karp, Director, Bioinformatics, SRI International for the talk Databases and Algorithms for Pathway Bioinformatics on March 5 as part of the Data Mining SIG.

• The ACM would like to thank Niranjan Damera-Venkata & Nelson L. Chan, HP Labs for the talk Pluribus: A Unified Framework for Scalable Multi-Projector Displays on February 27. [Video]

• The ACM would like to thank Leslie Spring, CTO and Founder, Cognitive Code Corporation for the talk SILVIA: A Practical Hybrid Approach for Conversational Intelligence on February 13 as part of the Data Mining SIG. [Video]

• Please take a moment to look at the various companies that have donated products and materials to the chapter

Logistics:

• Monthly Meetings:
  Dates: Third Wednesday of every month (except July, August and December)
  Time: 6:30pm Refreshments and Networking; 7:00pm Meeting
  Location: Oak Room at Hewlett Packard, Cupertino

• Data Mining SIG:
  Dates: Second Wednesday of the month
  Time: 6:30pm Refreshments and Networking; 7:00pm Meeting
  Location: SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA (Google Maps | Yahoo! Maps | Mapquest)

Meetings are free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is only $10/year
Contact us via email at humphrey@sfbayacm.org (Why Humphrey?)